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In Greek mythology, Ilus (/ ˈ iː l oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἶλος Ilos) was the founder of the city called Ilios or Ilion (Latinized as Ilium) to which he gave his name. [1] When the latter became the chief city of the Trojan people it was also often called Troy, the name by which it is best known today. In some accounts, Ilus was ...
Ilium or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ἴλιον), also known as Troja (Τροΐα), [1] was a city of ancient Epirus. [2] It is mentioned in the Aeneid of Virgil as a foundation of Helenus after the Trojan War in the land of the Chaonia. [3] Its site is located near the modern village of Despotiko in Greece. [4] [5] The village was formerly known as ...
A new city called Ilium (from Greek Ilion) was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople , which became a bishopric in the Roman province Hellespontus (civil Diocese of Asia ), but declined gradually in the Byzantine era .
In Greek mythology, Tros (/ ˈ t r ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Τρώς, Ancient Greek:) was the founder of the kingdom of Troy, of which the city of Ilios, founded by his son Ilus took the same name, and the son of Erichthonius by Astyoche (daughter of the river god Simoeis) [1] or of Ilus I [citation needed], from whom he inherited the throne.
In Greek mythology, Ilus (/ ˈ iː l oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἶλος, romanized: Îlos) is the name of several mythological characters associated directly or indirectly with Troy: Ilus, the son of Dardanus, and the legendary founder of Dardania. [1] Ilus, the son of Tros, and the legendary founder of Troy. [2]
Ilion (Ἴλιον) or (Latinized) Ilium, an Archaic name for the pre-classical city of Troy, hence the title of Homer's Iliad, also a Byzantine city and bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Ilium; Ilion, Greece, a suburb of Athens, Greece, also known as Nea Liosia; Ilium (Epirus), ancient city of Epirus, Greece
Ilium/Olympos is a series of two science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.The events are set in motion by beings who appear to be ancient Greek gods.Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, it is a form of "literary science fiction"; it relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare as well as references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or ...
Ilium, ancient name of Cestria (Epirus), an ancient city in Epirus, Greece; Ilium Building, a building in Troy, New York, United States; Anatomy.